Dunnagan Creek Stream Restoration Design Project
#13-1046 #13-1046
 Black River Management Unit Dunnagan Creek  Dunnagan Creek Stream Restoration Design Project
Organization Chehalis Basin Lead Entity
Sponsor Thurston County
Status Dormant
Schedule Start Date: 5/5/2019 End Date: 5/5/2019
Category Category: Planning
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DESCRIPTION
This design-only stream restoration project is proposed by Thurston County Public Works and co sponsored with Mason Conservation District to improve fish habitat for coho, searun cutthroat and resident trout in an unnamed tributary to the Black River, locally called Dunnagan Creek.   Location is Lat: 46.85093 Long: 123.10327, near 10534 Gate Road SW, S19-T16N-3W.   Currently, the downstream low gradient channel is channelized and choked with reed canary grass, significantly reducing the conveyance capacity of the stream, with little riparian canopy.   During high flow events, the stream overtops the culvert and flows over Gate Road, creating dangerous driving conditions and impeding fish passage, especially for fall migrating coho.   Regular overtopping suggests the existing culvert is undersized, but the 2007 Lewis County Conservation District barrier survey did not consider it a fish barrier.   The project will evaluate the hydrology of the watershed, including the existing culvert and approximately 700 feet of downstream channel and will identify three design alternatives.   The alternatives will include culvert replacement if applicable, channel reconfiguration downstream, and riparian planting, monitoring and maintenance.   Downstream property owners include WDFW, and Thurston County Parks, who support the project.   After stakeholder review, one alternative will be selected, considering factors such as benefit to fish and cost eff
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FUNDING SOURCES
FUNDING ENTRIES FROM GRANT PROJECT AGREEMENT
TypeDateFunding OrgFunding ProgramMatchAmount
RequestedThurston CountyMatch$10,000.00
RequestedRecreation and Conservation Office (RCO)Salmon State Projects$10,000.00
Grant Project Agreement Totals Proposed Requested Allocated Spent Balance
$20,000.00 $20,000.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
OTHER FUNDING (Funding that is NOT in a grant project agreement)
TypeDateFunding OrgFunding ProgramMatchAmount
Other Funding Totals Proposed Requested Allocated Spent Balance
Grand Totals Proposed Requested Allocated Spent Balance
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LOCATION
Chehalis GSU:Lower Black MS
Chinook-Pop (ESU):Chinook-Washington Coast, Not Warranted
Chum-Pop (ESU):Chum-Pacific Coast, Not Warranted
Coho-Pop (ESU):Coho-Southwest Washington, Not Determined
County:Thurston
HUC12:Lower Black River (171001030505)
HUC8:Upper Chehalis (17100103)
Lead Entity Area:Chehalis Basin
Legislative District:35
Salmon Recovery Regions:Washington Coast
Sections:19
Sections:30
Steelhead-Pop (ESU):Steelhead-Washington Coast, Not Warranted
Township:T16NR03W
Watershed Administrative Unit:Black River
WRIA:Upper Chehalis
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
NOTES
Near 10534 Gate Road SW. Take I-5 to Maytown exit 95. West on Maytown Rd, through hamlet of Littlerock, left on Mima Road. South on Mima (becomes Gate Rd.) roughly 3.5 miles to site. (Lat: 46.85093 Long: -123.10327)

This project was not approved for SRFB funding in 2013 and is in wastebasket status in PRISM.